Comcast will power Galvanize, Denver’s new tech campus

[media-credit name=”The Denver Post/ Andy Cross” align=”alignright” width=”270″][/media-credit]In this file photo, a painter applies final touches to a coffee tasting room while Ninety Plus, right, work at Galvanize, a co-working space at 1062 Delaware in Denver that opened late last year.

Galvanize has selected Comcast to provide bandwidth connectivity to its entrepreneur and startup members.

Galvanize is a 30,000-square-foot co-working space that includes dedicated offices for more established startups. Companies such as Roximity and Uber call the campus home. MapQuest co-founder Perry Evans’ latest startup, Closely, recently moved into the building.

“We chose Comcast because they were not only the clear leader for Business Class Ethernet, but they came highly recommended from trusted friends, colleagues, and other businesses in the area,” said Jim Deters, founder of Galvanize, in a prepared statement. “High-speed connectivity is like oxygen to our community – it must be insanely fast, plentiful and be reliable.”

The building, located in the Golden Triangle Area, is connected to 300 Mbps of service, which is scalable to 2 Gbps.

“For entrepreneurs, we know that scalable and reliable connectivity is second only to coffee in terms of importance,” said Rich Jennings, regional senior vice president of Comcast in Colorado.

Galvanize launches its gSchool next week, which will give students a six-month crash course on coding, with the promise of a well-paying job ($60K annually) upon graduation.

Tamara Chuang covers personal technology and local tech news for The Denver Post. She previously spent 10 years doing the same thing for The Orange County Register before taking a hiatus to move here and become a SAHM to a precocious toddler.